How can you make Wingdings font available in Webi XI

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Hi

I am trying to add Wingdings to the list of fonts available in the Web Intelligence Java panel. (XI R2 SP1)

From searching this forum, it looks like I need to add an entry to …\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11.5\win32_x86\fonts\fontalias.xml

So I have tried adding the following entry …

  <FONT NAME="Wingdings">
    <FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="ttf" NAME="Wingdings">
      <FONTATTRIBUTE BOLD="false" ITALIC="false" LOGICAL="Wingdings" PHYSICAL="Wingdings.ttf"/>
    </FONTFAMILY>
    <FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="win" NAME="Wingdings"/>
    <FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="java" NAME="Wingdings"/>
    <FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="html" NAME="Wingdings"/>
  </FONT>

and I think I am nearly there. A new entry now appears in the list of fonts in Webi, but it is in unprintable characters. If I select it then it displays the word “Wingdings”. However, any cell text in the report using Wingdings font also displays in unprintable characters.

Does anybody know exactly what I have to do to enable Wingdings?

Thanks
Richard

Richard Reeve :uk: (BOB member since 2003-01-07)

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Really? Has nobody done this before?

I have now raised a case with Business Objects about adding additional fonts to Webi. Watch this space…

Richard Reeve :uk: (BOB member since 2003-01-07)

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UPDATE:

It turns out that the extra lines that I had added to fontalias.xml were correct.

However, I was informed by BO, the Java panel does not yet support the display of additional fonts, which is why they currently display as non-printable characters. Apparently this might be resolved in a future release.

When editing documents in the HTML panel, the correct Wingdings characters are displayed.
Also when viewing reports in HTML or PDF format, the characters display correctly.

I guess I can live with this situation for the time being (like I have a choice :frowning: ), as my end users will see the correct characters when viewing the reports. It will just make things a bit of a pain when developing reports using the Java panel.

Richard Reeve :uk: (BOB member since 2003-01-07)

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Hi
do somebody know if this feature is now available ?
and if yes, how to do it !

thanks

cageot :fr: (BOB member since 2002-12-10)

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Adding fonts should be done like Richard says. The Java report panel is not yet capable of displaying these additional fonts although I added Verdana which surprisingly looked like Verdana.

I’m on XIr2 SP2 FP2.4.

JeroenO :netherlands: (BOB member since 2002-09-16)

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OK,
I’m on BO XI R2 Sp2 and i tried to add the WindDings font by this way.
The font is listed in the pull down menu (but displayed as a serie of small squares)
When you select it, the name of the font is displayed
but the result in the java console is also a serie of squares :frowning:

i’ll check next release to see if it’s fixed

thanks

cageot :fr: (BOB member since 2002-12-10)

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I have just installed some custom fonts on XIR2 SP2.
They work fine.

I followed the process described here:

http://technicalsupport.businessobjects.com/KanisaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=3425661&sliceId=&dialogID=12172008&stateId=1%200%2012170376

I am using Java Report panel.
The new fonts appear in html as well as pdf formats.

rahul :singapore: (BOB member since 2005-05-25)

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Hi There

I am also struggling to add GEINspira font in the BO XI server. Our environment is a clustered on with 2 servers (BO XI R2 SP2 Fix Pack 2.6). I have follwed the process what has been given by BO Tech support in the above link and made code changes in XML files but with out any Luck.

I could able to see the GEInspira font in the WebI Report drop down menu but when I am appliying the same …its hanging.

Here is my code
Fontalias. XML

i18n.XML

Before making these changes in both the servers I have installed GEInspira font in both the clustered server.

Please guide me where I am going wrong

Dak

Dak (BOB member since 2006-01-17)

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try changing the following fontalias entries

from

to

rahul :singapore: (BOB member since 2005-05-25)

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Hi Rahul

I already tried with the thing that you suggested but still no luck. Any new ideas that I can get :hb:

Regards
Dak

Dak (BOB member since 2006-01-17)

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Hi Rahul,

I have this issue of viewing the century gothic font on infoview. I am working on BO XI R2(java report panel). The deski report when converted to pdf has the century gothic font in it. Works fine. But the same report when seen over web via infoview does shows the same font, instead converts into arial when tried to view in pdf format. So, I tried adding the century gothic font to the fontalias.xml but no luck. I followed the same process in the link provided by you. Here is the code used. Any suggestions are welcome.

<FONT NAME="Century Gothic">
	<FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="ttf" NAME="Century Gothic">
		<FONTATTRIBUTE BOLD="false" ITALIC="false" LOGICAL="Gothic" PHYSICAL="Gothic.ttf"/>
		<FONTATTRIBUTE BOLD="true" ITALIC="false" LOGICAL="Gothic Bold" PHYSICAL="Gothicb.ttf"/>
		<FONTATTRIBUTE BOLD="false" ITALIC="true" LOGICAL="Gothic Italic" PHYSICAL="Gothici.ttf"/>
		<FONTATTRIBUTE BOLD="true" ITALIC="true" LOGICAL="Gothic Bold Italic" PHYSICAL="Gothicbi.ttf"/>
	</FONTFAMILY>
	<FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="win" NAME="Century Gothic"/>
	<FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="java" NAME="'Century Gothic', 'Arial Unicode MS'"/>
	<FONTFAMILY PLATFORM="html" NAME="'Century Gothic', 'Arial Unicode MS'"/>

bobuser9 (BOB member since 2007-04-20)

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Hi,

I tried to follow the instructions detailed by Rahul but I had to do some workarounds to display the font correctly on Java, HTML and PDF view.

I had the font on both otf and ttf formats, and I added the following code to fontalias.xml

First I mapped each attribute to a different otf with the specific characteristics of the attribute. That solved the PDF display, but on HTML and Java, the font was being replaced by Arial.

That was solved by adding a reference to the ttf font on the “FONT FAMILY PLATFORM” tag.

That way, the problem was solved: ttf font was referenced when viewing on HTML and Java, and the otf was used when publishing to PDF. :lol:

Also make sure you use the Typeface name when you reference a TTF font or else it won’t be displayed correctly.

Hope you find this useful,

Alejandro Serrano

iguanasterix :iceland: (BOB member since 2008-02-18)

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This is exactly what I was looking for. Does anyone know the “new” link now that the SAP transition is complete? I have no idea why they would just redirect to one screen. Spend a couple bucks and buy another server :hb:

napville2000 :us: (BOB member since 2008-07-04)

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Does the same directions apply to Crystal Reports too ? I have created a report using CR XIR2. Wingdings font worked fine when viewed using CR Designer. Publishing and viewing it in Infoview is swell too. However, problem occurs when you download it as a PDF. The font doesn’t display as it should be.

Appreciate any feedback.

AnthonyJ :philippines: (BOB member since 2006-06-30)

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I have a similar need where i need to view chinese character in webi reports. we are on unix Sun Solaris (os) and on xi3.1. When I run a report that has chinese charcters in the oracle table, I see squares. When I change the font on the column in the report to MingLiu it displays diamond shape with ! mark in it.

This is the entry I have in the fontalias.xml file.

Is there anything I am missing?
Thanks for your help!

BOGURUG :us: (BOB member since 2003-09-15)